Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Thousands of people from Mali and elsewhere flock to the town of Segou, 230 km (143 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, every February, for a week-long showcase of Malian music, visual art, ...

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso no longer orient themselves towards France or Western business interests. As demand for raw ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

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